Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Boko Haram Attack Mandawari Police Division in Kano

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect on Monday attacked Mandawari Police station and injured two police officers according to eyewitnesses, who pleaded anonymity.

However, the police said gunmen riding on motorcycle attacked the police station and the policemen repelled the attack.

Kano State police command in a press statement made available to reporters on Monday explained that a group of armed men, who were on motorcycles, joined others who dropped from a Toyota Lite Hace bus, advanced on foot and attacked the Mandawari Police Division.

According to them, the policemen on duty who were on alert successfully repelled the attack and pursued the hoodlums into the neighbourhood with a view to arresting them. No causality was recorded during the incident and investigation is also on progress.

The police command said the officer disarmed one of the hoodlums and shot him dead with the riffle and added that a motorcycle (Jinchen) and 21 rounds of live ammunition were abandoned and recovered saying the investigation has commenced over the incidence.

At Mandawari quarters, resident of the area where left panicking for the fear of military raid in the neighbourhood searching for the suspects, while many of the residents have fled the area and those staying behind have remained indoors.

The attack on the Mandawari police station was the third time since the eruption of the insecurity in the state on January 20th during the multiple bomb blast that killed 185 people in the capital.

from allAfrica

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